THE last petrol filling station in Warrington town centre looks set to close.
Planning chiefs have given the go ahead for a three-storey office block, with underground car park, on the site of the Crosfield Filling Station, in Crosfield Street.
It is not the first time permission has been sought for a change of use of the site.
But earlier proposals were thrown out.
When the filling station closes it will mean the nearest petrol stations to the town centre are in Wilderspool Causeway, Chester Road or at the Tesco or Sainsbury superstores.
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Sainsburys Supermarket is pretty close to the town centre – Supermarkets are the reason we are losing so many corner shops and petrol stations.
I know someone who has a petrol station in a village, people pull up to get free air and then drive off without getting any petrol to save themselves a few pence down the road at a supermarket.
The message here is support you small local businesses or eventually the world will be monopolised by a couple of supermarkets who will then charge what they want!
I am sure that WBC are rubbing their hands because they will receive more money from business rates, land charges and planning appeals etc.
Unfortunately ‘Casual Observer’ supermarket petrol prices are always lower than in the smaller petrol stations and that is why people use the supermarkets. It’s all very well and good asking people to support their small local station businesses but at the end of the day as the money comes out of our pockets we have to think of ourselves too.
Wouldn’t bother with Chester Road petrol station though as that is always a few pence dearer per litre than Morrisons and similar distance from town centre.
Ironically we were discussing petrol prices a few days ago in Wales as they seem quite high there and as it was actually cheaper for us to get fuel from the motorway services than it was in the local petrol stations there 🙁
PS ‘AView’ do the council own the land or is the land owner just selling up… if it’s the latter then the landowner may be the one rubbing his hands 🙂
Unfortunately ‘Casual Observer’ supermarket petrol prices are always lower than in the smaller petrol stations and that is why people use the supermarkets. It’s all very well and good asking people to support their small local station businesses but at the end of the day as the money comes out of our pockets we have to think of ourselves too.
Wouldn’t bother with Chester Road petrol station though as that is always a few pence dearer per litre than Morrisons and similar distance from town centre.
Ironically we were discussing petrol prices a few days ago in Wales as they seem quite high there and as it was actually cheaper for us to get fuel from the motorway services than it was in the local petrol stations there 🙁
PS ‘AView’ do the council own the land or is the land owner just selling up… if it’s the latter then the landowner may be the one rubbing his hands 🙂